Accidental Harrycrux with a Bloodsucking Snake (long)

[Neri]

No: HPFGUIDX 155119

> Pippin :
> Careful, Neri. If blood coagulation is important, and we should pay
> attention to it, then Snape did not AK Dumbledore. Not if he was
> bleeding half an hour after he supposedly died. Here's the canon,
> in case you've forgotten. Or are we supposed to think that 
> Dumbledore was on blood-thinning medication? <g>
> 

Neri:
Almost correct. Since Voldy uses Nagini's anticoagulant venom in
potions, the simplest explanation for Dumbledore's postmortem bleeding
is that her venom was also an ingredient of the green potion from the
cave.

Seems completely straightforward to me. In fact I should have probably
included Dumbledore's bleeding as a clue in my theory.

I'm not sure what is your alternative explanation for Dumbledore's
bleeding, but I somehow suspect that it will take considerably more
than two lines to describe and involve considerably more than a single
reasonable assumption <g>.


> Pippin :
> Odd, too, if he fell hard enough to break his bones and yet didn't 
> break his glasses.

Neri:
Not if he fell on his back, which is how the position of the body is
described in canon. And falling on the back suggests he wasn't
conscious during the fall.

Neri